Previous posts for February 15th are here: John Adams (2020), Harold Arlen (2021), Georges Auric; Jean Langlais (2022), Henry Engelhard Steinway (2023), Harold Arlen (2024), and Walter Donaldson; Harold Arlen (2025)
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Jacob Kimball Jr. (15 February 1761 - 24 July 1826) was one of the first American composers. He played fife and drum in the American Revolutionary War and participated in Battle of Lexington and Bunker Hill.
Sounds of Freedom 1
In this quarter-millennial year
I'm using these verses to cheer
This man who played fife
And drum in the strife
Which created the land we hold dear.
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Sounds of Freedom 2
In this our semi-quincentennial year
I'd like to take a solemn moment here
To sing the praise of Jacob Kimball Junior,
Who made the bloody battlefield tunier
With stirring music on the fife and drum,
And helped to found that land that would become
These great United States, freed from the bond
Of rule by George the Third across the Pond.
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